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The federal government has re-classified the Canary Islands, which are popular with German tourists, as a corona risk area. This means that all of Spain will be on the risk list again from Sunday.
As of Sunday, the Canary Islands will once again officially be a corona risk zone. The Robert Koch Institute announced on its website that the number of infections on the islands popular with German tourists increased dramatically. This means that from Sunday all of Spain will be back on the government’s risk list, which also carries a travel warning from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Hotspot Tenerife
The Canary Islands are one of the few holiday destinations in other European countries for which no travel warning has been applied so far. On October 24, it was canceled due to the decrease in the number of infections. For eight weeks, Canarias was considered risk-free.
However, for some time, the figures have increased again, especially in Tenerife. There, new infections per 100,000 inhabitants stood at 127 in one week, increasing this value for the seven Canary Islands together, which are otherwise below the limit value of 50, except in La Gomera, to an average of a good 70. From a value of 50, the classification is carried out. as a risk zone and therefore also as a travel warning.
Vacationers can cancel trips
In Gran Canaría, in the face of the emerging German travel alert, calls have been made in recent days to dissociate Tenerife and La Gomera in the statistics of the rest of the islands. The regional government refused.
The travel warning does not mean a travel ban, but is intended to have the greatest possible deterrent effect on tourists. They can cancel trips if their destination is declared a risk zone. Returnees from risk areas must be in quarantine for up to ten days, but can be exempted from this prematurely by a negative test from the fifth day after entry.
Strong blow for the tourism industry
For the Canaries off the west coast of Africa, the travel warning means another blow to the tourism industry. Besides the Germans, the British make up the largest group of vacationers in normal times. Britain had already ordered a quarantine for returnees from the Canary Islands a good week ago. Businesses active in tourism urgently demanded more emergency aid from the government.
On the European continent there are only regions in France, Greece, Estonia, Finland, Norway and Austria (two municipalities on the German border) that are not classified as risk areas. There are also individual regions in Ireland, the Portuguese Madeira, a large part of the Greek islands, the British Isle of Man, and the Channel Island of Guernsey, as well as the Danish islands of Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
